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THERE will be no extended holiday for Jesse Williams, no end-of-season jaunt to drink cocktails and dance on what would need to be sturdy tables in Cancun. Adulation for his conquest of college football will be short and sweet.
For the Alabama star, who helped the Crimson Tide crush Notre Dame in the college national championship game this week, the first day of the rest of his life began the moment the final whistle was blown at Sun Life Stadium in Miami.
Life at the Bayside Ravens in Brisbane, where the 193-centimetre, 145-kilogram giant first started playing American football at 14, will soon be a world away, if it wasn't already. Williams is destined to be part of a life where salaries are counted in tens of millions and the pressure to deliver is just as exorbitant.
The nose tackle has been tipped to go in the first round of April's NFL draft but it is hardly a matter of picking a suit, donning the team cap, posing for photos and watching money roll in.
Between now and then, Williams will undergo the kind of scrutiny, both physically and mentally, that would terrify most footballers in this country. He will be poked, prodded, pinched, tested, interrogated and turned inside-out – all in the public eye – before franchises decide whether to invest in his services.
There are decisions to be made. Before next month's NFL Scouting Combine, Williams will make one of the most crucial choices of his career. He will choose an agent.
"Agents will come to him and offer their services and bring a package to how that agency is going to get him drafted higher, therefore more money," said former Green Bay punter Nathan Chapman from Prokick Australia, which helps groom kickers for NFL and college careers.
Williams will be asking not what the "Monstar" can do for agents but what agents can do for him. Putting himself into the first-round discussion gives him bargaining power in line with his potential career earnings.
But to earn a fat contract, Williams must slay the drills at the Combine, a nationally televised week-long camp in Indianapolis where prospects must excel in a variety of physical and psychological examinations.
Already expected to smash the Combine's bench-press record by lifting 100kg about 55 or 60 times, Williams enters the week with heavy expectations on his brute strength but will be keen to elaborate on his other skills.
"At the testing days, especially the NFL Combine, your whole world pretty much comes down to how well you do in those tests … how many times you bench-press 100kg, how fast you run the 40 yards, what's your vertical jump like, how you move through a series of agility tests," Chapman said. "If he runs a good time, his stocks go higher."
The physical tests are just a part of the checklist. During the Combine, every team will have the opportunity to ask him questions, while Williams will also take an IQ quiz. Mock drafts have placed Williams as high as 14th, while some still have him going in the second round.
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History weekend: Bringing out the big guns
It was a loud and rugged couple of days outside the Albemarle County Office Building. October 4 and 5 marked the All American Military History Weekend organized by the local non-profit All American Honor Guard.
The event, an outdoor living history exhibit, included re-enactors from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and current US conflicts. The reminder of American wars was not only educational, it was also fun for the kids (but scary, perhaps, for peace lovers).
The big draw is the "firing time line." Re-enactors and soldiers demonstrate (with blanks) firearms and weaponry used throughout our history: muskets, rifles, machine guns, and even a Civil War cannon– the force of which is so powerful that it shook the earth like a dump truck had fallen out of the sky. With their ears ringing, the crowd applauded from under a huge cloud of smoke.
Other interesting exhibitions included the WWI Salvation Army donut "lassies," deep frying for the WWI re-enactors and visitors– and also for the macabre Civil War doctor. The lassies volunteered for duty to make donuts for GIs in Europe to provide the soldiers a little taste of home and bring a little reminder of Christianity to the battlefield.
A Civil War "doctor" demonstrated how pills were made using a gummy substance and raw drugs like opium rolled over a ribbed washboard apparatus. In character (and with a straight face), the field surgeon also demonstrated an amputation: Cut into an arm, roll the skin back, repeat until you reach bone. Then cut with a butcher blade saw. Was the red color on his tools rust or 150-year-old blood?
Driving by late Saturday night, one could still see some Civil War soldiers sitting by fires near their tents. It was a chilly night, but these folks were determined to keep it authentic. And unlike the boys at Bull Run, in the morning they could always nip up to Bodo's for breakfast.
Firing off the big one.
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Andrea Wilson plays a "lassie."
The good doctor demonstrates.
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Kids born in 1946 — the beginning of the baby boom generation — gathered around their TV sets to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, Leave it to Beaver and Howdy Doody. The kids born at the tail end of the boom, in 1964, tuned into Scooby Doo, Super Friends and Little House on the Prairie.
Early and late boomers have widely varied cultural perspectives and life experience — so advisors lump them together at their peril, the Insured Retirement Institute warns.
While their differences are not as pronounced as the gap between boomers and millennials, younger boomers will likely face additional challenges, according to an IRI report released Monday.
Overall, just 34% of boomers said they were confident in their ability to retire comfortably, the report found. However, older boomers, those between ages 61 and 66, were more confident, with 42% saying they could retire comfortably. Just 25% of boomers between ages 50 and 55 agreed.
It doesn't hurt that early boomers are more likely to have retired already, making retirement a reality instead of a vague unknown.
"From a retirement planning perspective, we need to start segmenting the boomer cohort to ensure that we are appropriately addressing their unique retirement needs and challenges," Cathy Weatherford, IRI president and CEO, said in a statement. "Those on the back end of the generation have had a much different workplace experience than the first boomers."
Weatherford noted that unlike many early boomers who likely have pension plans, younger boomers were more likely to spend most of their careers in the defined contribution plan era and "will face many of the risks and challenges that have come with it. As a result they will be more self-responsible for their retirement income security. At the same time, late boomers have less saved for retirement and their low confidence regarding their future financial security reflects this."
Furthermore, early boomers worked through long spells of economic stability, giving them a leg up on retirement security, according to the report. Indeed, the Pew Charitable Trust found in May that early boomers may be the last generational cohort to retire well.
Almost a third of early boomers say they have less than $100,000 saved for retirement, but nearly half of late boomers said they have less than that saved, IRI found. Just over a quarter of late boomers said they are doing a good job preparing for retirement, compared with 45% of early boomers.
Late boomers are also more likely to struggle with day-to-day expenses or support adult children financially. Almost a third said they were having trouble paying their mortgage or rent, compared with 20% of early boomers. Thirty-four percent of younger boomers say they are providing financial support for adult children, compared with 21% of older boomers.
Social Security is another challenge weighing unevenly on late boomers. Over half of early boomers expect Social Security to be a major source of income in retirement, compared with just 36% of late boomers.
Despite all these challenges, 41% of late boomers expect their financial situation will improve over the next five years, compared with 25% of early boomers. IRI theorized that this is likely because they still have a few years left in the work force. "Part of the explanation of this greater optimism among late boomers could be more late boomers are working with at least 12 more years until full Social Security eligibility for the oldest in this cohort, the 55-year-olds. More working years provides more opportunity to improve upon current financial challenges," according to the report. Furthermore, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for people between 50 and 54 was under 6% in May, down from 7.2% in 2009.
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The working poor: Struggling with poverty in Fairfield County
Haydee Lombard remembers the day her life changed 10 years ago. It was raining June 27, when she and her husband, Robert, learned that their 23-year-old daughter Kelly Ana had been brutally murdered in Bridgeport and they decided to raise their then 2-year-old grandson.
Haydee, 59, took early retirement from her job managing a post office, and they sold their Bridgeport home, moved to Massachusetts and then came back to Connecticut, now living in Monroe, so their now 12-year-old grandson could attend "a beautiful school."
Robert operated a tree business before a shoulder injury and Haydee is job hunting. Haydee is a volunteer and patron at the Monroe food bank.
"It's a very rich town with a lot of young families. But the original settlers here are struggling, like me," Haydee said. She is upbeat and helps others even when she doesn't have much, making care packages for fellow members of Trumbull's New Life Christian Church. "I'm a very positive person despite what has happened. The world will beat the snot out of you. Let's blow our noses and keep going," said Haydee, who plans to launch a women's support group.
Southwestern Connecticut is home to 14 billionaires, but it is also the home for a growing population of the working poor in the nation's biggest income gap. One of every 10 families is struggling near the poverty line. The working poor are more likely to be black or Hispanic, female heads of households and the elderly. Their ranks grew during the Great Recession and continue to grow amid an anemic economic recovery that's fewer low-wage, entry-level jobs. Fairfield County has a quarter of the state's higher-educated, low-income workers and more than half of those attended college or earned degrees.
Failing to recover
While Connecticut added 4,900 jobs in March, the manufacturing-reliant state has only regained 54.6 percent of the 119,000 jobs lost during the recession, unlike New York and Massachusetts, which have recovered to peak pre-recession job levels.
A Working Poor Families Project study showed that 21 percent, or 83,000, of Connecticut's 389,000 families with children and jobs had income below 200 percent of the 2011 federal poverty level. While the number is low compared with most states, the growth from 16 percent in 2007 was one of the nine fastest, joining recession-pummeled Michigan and Nevada. The 2013 federal poverty guideline is $11,490 annually for an individual and $23,550 for a family of four. A sole breadwinner in a four-member family has to earn $11.32 an hour for 40 hours weekly to top the poverty line.
About one-quarter of adults in low-income working families are cashiers, cooks, health aides, janitors, maids, retail salespersons or waiters/waitresses, said the Working Poor Families Project of Washington, D.C.
Less opportunity
While the working poor have historically been less educated, Connecticut Voices for Children's analysis of U.S. Census data found that more than half of Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk's low-income workers, or 99,084 workers aged 18-64, attended college or attained a bachelor's or master's degree.
"Few places in America offer less opportunity for economic mobility thanFairfield County. Most entry-level jobs don't come close to providing economic self-sufficiency, competition for these jobs is fierce, and housing is among the most expensive in the state," said Wade Gibson, director of the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children. "It is tough to be poor in Fairfield County."
Half of Southwestern Connecticut's food-insecure residents do not qualify for federal aid. A study by Feeding America, the Chicago-based hunger-relief charity, found 11.7 percent, or 107,110, of Fairfield County residents are food insecure and it would take more than $62 million, or $19.12 per week, to meet each food-insecure person's needs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a Living Wage calculator that showed a single adult living in Fairfield County needs to earn at least $12.07 an hour in a full-time job or $24.03 an hour to support a spouse and two children to pay for housing, food, child care, medical needs, transportation and taxes. In Bridgeport, the amounts would be $10.83 and $22.17; in Danbury $12.20 and $24.28; and in Darien, Norwalk, Stamford and Westport $13.22 and $25.71.
Nancy Coughlin, executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor, said 1,000 residents are served monthly by the Greenwich food pantry, up 55 percent since 2008. "More Greenwich families likely are eligible for free food but haven't sought out help due to a perceived stigma of needing the service," she said.
About 4 percent of Greenwich residents live below the poverty line.
"Sometimes it's difficult to accept help from a food pantry, but once a family walks through our doors, they see it is not a humiliating experience," Coughlin said.
Fred Carstensen, director of the University of Connecticut's Center for Economic Analysis in Storrs, said the planned minimum wage boost to $10.10 an hour by January 2017 from $8.70 is not a panacea for the working poor. "The problem in Connecticut is not wage levels. The problem is we're not generating economic growth. I don't think raising the wage three years hence is going to have much of an impact. A bit of inflation will eat away at the real value."
Carstensen, co-researcher of a 2013 report on Connecticut poverty, said the state started to invest in human infrastructure but needs to review best practices and invest in physical infrastructure. "We're doing much better than we were. But the only way to address the wage issue is if you create more jobs, and we haven't done that for 25 years."
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On the eve of its 15th anniversary celebration, a popular River North nightclub was doused with several inches of water when a patron punched out a fire sprinkler hanging from a low ceiling, authorities said.
"He was just leaving the club and decided to punch the sprinkler," said Miguel DeLeon, marketing director for the SpyBar at 646 N. Franklin St. "We evacuated the club.
"We are having our 15th anniversary celebration this weekend," he added. "And to have this happen the night before."
The incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m., according to police. Samuel Clucas, 27, of Burbank told police his head hit the sprinkler, but a camera showed him taking a swipe at it, police said. He was arrested and charged with criminal damage to property.
The sprinkler sprayed water a few inches deep inside the basement bar and club, police said. Contractors were immediately called to dry out the bar, police said.
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The Asus Switcheroo module can be obtained at:
Script-based solution ( by firstname.lastname@example.com )
The script-based system includes several files, and allows automatic switching between intel and nvidia, at least on pre-optimus UL30VT.
Here is how it works:
- User writes either "intel" or "nvidia" to /home/user/switcheroo.txt.
- Script detects this and waits for the user to log out (detected as user's gnome-session not running)
- Turns off gdm3 (debian) or gdm (ubuntu).
- Uses the awilliam module (asus-switcheroo) to switch to the desired card.
- Uses acpi_call to turn off nvidia if required
- Links appropriate version of libglx.so and libGL.so, and xorg.conf so that X and openGL apps can find them
- Starts gdm again.
- my xorg.conf files for both cards.
- display-settings, the script that does one-shot card switching depending on switcheroo.txt, and runs at boot so that the last selected card will be used
- graphics-switch.sh, the script that monitors switcheroo.txt and calls display-settings when no user session is running
- graphics-switch-daemon, the script that starts graphics-switch.sh on the background at boot
- an example switcheroo.txt.
Hopefully comprehensive installation procedure:
In cloned acpi_call git compile acpi_call, and then
sudo cp acpi_call.ko into /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/kernel/drivers/acpi/ sudo depmod -a
- In cloned asus-switcheroo git, do sudo make install-ubuntu
- Make sure that both /etc/modules and /etc/initramfs-tools/modules have the lines: asus_switcheroo dummy_client=1 i915_jprobe
xorg.conf files:
- IMPORTANT: If your PCI ID's are different, please modify. See lspci for the numbers.
- sudo cp xorg.conf.intel xorg.conf.nvidia /etc/X11/
To get nice notifications for scheduled switches:
sudo apt-get install notify-osd
Finally, my scripts:
- Make sure that U=your-user-name in the scripts
- Make sure that SESSION=your-session in the scripts (for example gnome-session or startx or ... )
sudo cp graphics-switch.sh graphics-switch-daemon display-settings /etc/init.d/. sudo update-rc.d display-settings defaults sudo update-rc.d graphics-switch-daemon defaults
These should run on Ubuntu and Debian, tested on Linux Mint Debian. Change the user (U=user) to your user.
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asus-switcheroo graphics-switch.sh
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A local boxer was arrested in Florida after police said he bit a security guard.
NBC Miami reported that Adrien Broner was involved in an altercation early Monday at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau hotel when security guards attempted to intervene.
Police said one of the guards grabbed Broner to pull him away from the fight, and officers said the boxer bit the man on his right forearm.
Broner was charged with simple battery, a misdemeanor, and posted $1,500 bond.
He posted several defiant messages Monday night on Twitter after he was released from jail, saying, "So much hate I need a AK" and "Nobody will beat ME," but he was a bit more reflective on Tuesday.
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Can you believe that the Apple-Azing Race is just a few days away?! I'm super excited for it. Two weekends ago my cousin's did a 'dry run' of the challenges for me to test my clues, supplies, times, etc and it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun! I just wanted to send you an email to clarify a few things and get you all as excited as I am about it!
For the day of the race, please arrive at the orchard at 9am to register. You'll check in at this time, get your t-shirts and your race folder. If you want to 'add' to your t-shirts a sort of costume to go with your team name that would be awesome! (if not – no worries). (Let me know if you have decided on a team name…I would like to post these for reporting 'ranking' instead of everyone's names in post-event blogs).
We will be starting the race at 9:30am. I'll be sending some teams to start at different 'stations' of the race. You will be timed during each challenge – not a race to the finish. Your race folder will contain your time sheet that you'll have the volunteers at each station write your final time on before getting the clue to next challenge. Each of these challenges are for FUN. If you don't complete everything or do it correctly there will be a penalty (in the form of seconds) that the volunteers will be instructed to add. At the end of the day when I have all the sheets are turned in I'll be awarding points to each team determined by how their time at that particular challenge fell compared to the other teams. Let me know if you want further clarification of this!
Clues to the challenges will give you hints at the location of the challenge as well as what you may be doing in the challenge. Before you leave to find the challenge you need to decide which of your team members will be completing it. Each clue will indicate how many team members (max 2) will be needed for each challenge. To help you prep for the locations of the challenge please study our orchard map (one will be provided the day of as well): http://www.lapaceksorchard.blogspot.com/2012/09/2012-map-of-orchard.html and look over my blog posts…particularly September blog posts… www.lapaceksorchard.blogspot.com. Also – since this event is to help raise money for the Poynette Area Library each challenge is named after a book title just to add to the fun!
You should plan on being at the orchard for at least 4.5 hours to complete the race (no longer than 6). It will not be a strenuous day but there are a few challenges that only one team will be able to do at a time. They will be limited to 15 minutes for each team, but with 17 teams, that's a minimum of 4.25 hours. I plan on having some 'fun' side games to play in case you're waiting at one of these stations. At this point I would say to pack a lunch, drinks and snacks. There's a chance the boy scouts will be selling brats/hot dogs but I won't find that out until Wednesday. We have soda/water for sale in the orchard and you are all welcome to grab an apple or two from the shop to snack on before/during your journey.
Michelle Cross Photography will be taking photo's of the challenges throughout the day.
Did you all get a chance to see the prize package? http://www.lapaceksorchard.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-apple-azing-race-prize-package.html
That's all I can think of to update you all on now. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns or if I forgot to include anything I should have…
I'm excited for Saturday – I hope you are too!
~Kim Lapacek


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Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's soccer team defeated Bard College on Saturday, 1-0, giving the Rams the top seed in the Skyline Conference playoffs.
The game was a defensive struggle, with neither team scoring in the 90 minutes of regulation play. Farmingdale State held a 6-2 shot advantage over bard in regulation, not allowing a shot in the first half.
Farmingdale State freshman forward Nick Pancotto (Islip, N.Y./Islip) broke the scoreless tie 6:47 into the overtime period, scoring an unassisted goal. The win secures home field advantage for the Rams.
Junior goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins (East Patchogue, N.Y./Bellport) made three saves in the victory for Farmingdale, while freshman goalkeeper Deven Connelly (High Falls, N.Y./Rondout Valley) made six saves for Bard in the loss.
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Air Pollutants, air pollution, building materials, Cricket House Studios, cricketdiane, diesel exhaust, neutralizing air pollutants, new materials, pollution eating building materials, pollution neutralizing cement, pollution neutralizing paint, smog, smog eating concrete, smog eating paint
I saw something yesterday that got me thinking again.
XXX A new lightweight configuration and material – MIT XXX
My note – it is the math and surface area it provides that could be both strength and air cleaning in a massive way for cities. It inspired me and so I looked up things about the pollution neutralizing paints and materials / concrete / cement – which I've added the things that stood out to me down this list.
So today, I made a search in google for
pollution neutralizing paint
From those search results –
I chose to read and think about these articles –
An even grander project, the Palazzo Italia, will use similar materials over 13,000 square meters across six floors when it opens in Milan in 2015. Dutch scientists have also adapted the system to roads, claiming this can reduce pollution by 45%.The material is not prohibitively expensive — adding as little as 4-5% to construction costs. But the impact of such buildings has been limited to their immediate location, and efforts to develop the concept have led to more novel, personalized solutions.
The paint is formulated on a base of polysiloxane, a polymer consisting of silicon. The active ingredients are tiny spherical nanoparticles made up of calcium carbonate and titanium dioxide (TiO2). This polysiloxane base is porous enough to allow nitrous oxides to diffuse through it and effectively stick to the nanoparticles. In turn, sunlight provides the energy to convert the nitrous oxides into nitric acid which is either disposed of by rain or neutralized by the alkaline properties of calcium carbonate and converted into carbon dioxide, calcium nitrate, and water. These profound chemical transformations are triggered by the ultraviolet radiation absorbed by the nanoparticles.
Millenium Inorganic Chemicals, a British R&D firm has developed what they intended to appropriately name "Ecopaint." This paint utilizes the same photo catalytic process of the anti-smog cement developed and under going testing in Italy.
NASA-designed Airocide neutralizes indoor air pollution
Called Airocide, this technology "clears the air of virtually 100% of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's) – the harmful gasses emitted by products you have around your home, like aerosol sprays, cleaning supplies, disinfectants, hobby supplies, dry-cleaned clothing, building materials, paints and paint thinners, strippers, pesticides and even air fresheners. This FDA approved device also completely eliminates all mold, pollen, fungi, viruses and bacteria (all major causes of allergy symptoms) that enter the chamber," according to the Airocide website.
Gizmag reports, "Each Airocide unit incorporates a reaction chamber that contains thousands of tiny glass rings coated inside and out with titanium dioxide (TiO2). With the help of a high-intensity light, the TiO2 produces hydroxyls. When airborne organic molecules are drawn in and make contact with those hydroxyls, the carbon bonds in those molecules are broken."
This process renders any organic compound inert. The hydroxyls cannot escape the chamber and no cleaning is needed, though the chamber does have to be replaced every year. The Airocide is currently priced at $799 and replacement chambers go for $99.
The technology has actually been used in places we've been visiting for quite some time now. Because ethylene gas causes accelerated ripening, supermarkets, florists and food packers have been using the technology since 1998, and in 2003, Airocide was introduced to hospitals, medical offices and daycare centers to prevent the spread of airborne disease.
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Dust suppressants consist of calcium magnesium acetate, which is expected to glue particles to the carriageway to stop them re-circulating in the air. TfL will first sweep and jet wash the roads, then apply the solution using a modified winter gritting machine with a fine sprinkler-like system attached.
Head on over to Business Green for the full scoop on Mayor Boris' pollution glue plan.
which I haven't gone to see yet, but that article was from 2011
Then I made another search on Google using these search terms –
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These are the search returns that I picked to read –
Smog-eating cement first made headlines back in 2007, when it was introduced in the U.S. by the Italian company Italcementi, whose R&D center is pictured below. The cement is called TX Active and the magic ingredient is titanium oxide. When exposed to sunlight, titanium oxide can neutralize some pollutants—basically the toxins are oxidized when they come into contact with the cement. For instance, nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide gasses are made harmless when they are turned into nitrates or sulfates. Without the catalyst of titanium oxide, the nitrogen and sulfur oxide break down in the atmosphere creating smog and ground level ozone.
The concrete is made up of traditional cement mixed with titanium dioxide. This unique mixture allows air to pass through while simultaneously capturing nitrogen-oxide particles, a main component of smog. Titanium dioxide functions as a catalyst to the chemical reaction which is activated by UV light. Not only does it filter the air, but the collected smog residue washes off with a light rainfall. Don't worry about the residue, it's made up of inert salts that have no effect on the surrounding environment.
In total, it took 2,000 metric tons of the bio dynamic concrete to construct the building and it's creators at Italcementi claim that it is stronger than the equivalent of regular concrete. This added strength allowed the architects and engineers to create the stunning linear shapes seen on the building's facade with ease.
CHK this site to see a photo of the building – absolutely stunning and it eats air pollution.
Chinese activist-artist raises awareness by sucking up smog into bricks
Brother Nut's machine collected over 100 grams of pollutants, much of it made up of small particles some 30 times smaller than a strand of human hair.He then took the dust, mixed it with clay in a mold, and turned it into an average looking brick.The art project went viral, to the point that he now gets stopped on the street by pedestrians wanting to take photos.However, he's not the first artist to tout a vacuum cleaner as a possible way to clean up the city's skies.
In 2013, a Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde came up with an electro-magnetic device that would pull airborne smog particles to the ground, creating columns of fresh air.
Air pollution can be made of everything from soot to heavy metals like arsenic and lead.
As the latest coal-fuelled "airpocalypse" engulfed northern China this week and world leaders gathered in Paris to debate the fight against climate change, Nut Brother hit the streets of Beijing hoping to raise awareness of his country's deadly smog crisis.
For the last 100 days, the activist, whose real name is Wang Renzheng, has used the industrial appliance to extract dust and other lung-choking pollutants from the city's atmosphere before transforming them into a dark brown "smog brick".
He ordered a vacuum cleaner from a manufacturer in Shanghai and began taking it on four-hour sorties across Beijing's urban sprawl, gobbling up pollutants as he went. Photographs published in the Chinese media this week showed him pushing his vacuum cleaner past some of Beijing's most celebrated landmarks.
"You can't tell if it is night or day!" Liu Haishan, 38, a taxi driver, complained on Tuesday afternoon as he attempted to navigate through the gloom.
Beijing authorities claimed they had forced vehicles off the roads and shut more than 2,000 polluting companiesin order to tackle the crisis.
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Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance, their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things). It's been 26 years since their formation (as Black Death), 22 years since their first LP (the technical death-metal album Soulside Journey), and 21 years since they abandoned technical death metal to play primitive black metal, the genre they helped to define, in Norway, alongside Mayhem and Burzum and a host of lesser (or later) luminaries. Also worth noting: It's been 20 years since the band's rhythm guitarist, Ivar "Zephyrous" Enger, parted ways with Darkthrone, and thus two decades of the band existing as a duo: Gylve Nagell and Ted Skjellum, better known as Fenriz and Nocturno Culto, respectively.
That's a long time for any band to remain intact — attrition claims most before they hit the decade mark — much less a band in such a turbulent scene: If you didn't know, Norwegian black metal musicians are unusually prone to things like suicide, murder, and incarceration.
Like Zelig, Darkthrone were around for all of it — the church-burnings, the homicides, the bigotry — though they remained uninvolved with and untouched by nearly all the sensationalism, the madness. Darkthrone were part of the "Inner Circle" at Helvete, the record store run by Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, the Mayhem guitarist and architect of the Norwegian black metal scene. They were close friends and collaborators with Varg Vikernes, who played bass in Mayhem but made his own musical name as Burzum, before (and after) killing Euronymous. They were featured prominently in some of the scene's best-known ancillary documents: Peter Beste's book of photography, True Norwegian Black Metal; Aaron Aites's and Audrey Ewell's documentary film, Until The Light Takes Us; and hundreds — maybe thousands — of publications: newspapers, zines, blogs, magazines … Darkthrone are everywhere. (Heck, even before they were part of the Inner Circle, they were everywhere: Their logo — which has remained consistent since Soulside Journey, and is probably the most famous and coolest metal logo this side of the Slayer slashes — was drawn by Tomas Lindberg, lead singer of At The Gates and Disfear.)
The band is best known for what has been called the Unholy Trinity — three consecutive LPs that came to define black metal: 1992's A Blaze In The Northern Sky, '93's Under A Funeral Moon, and '94's Transilvanian Hunger. Those albums changed not only the sound of black metal, but its look, too: While most metal album covers at the time were elaborate, colorful fantasies stuffed to claustrophobic capacity with gore, sci-fi, or Lovecraftian imagery, the Unholy Trinity featured stark images of solitary humans (who were painted white and garbed in black, and who looked like ghosts or vampires), like decayed frames from silent horror movies.
Get past the cover and into the grooves, and the sound was equally unexpected, dark, and degraded; the music featured on the Unholy Trinity albums sounds almost like an air recording or a cassette demo. This was a deliberate decision on the part of the band. Nocturno Culto had obtained a copy of Polish death metal band Vader's 1989 demo, Necrolust, and both he and Fenriz were inspired by the sound. As Fenriz has since noted: "It was not the usual copy [of the Necrolust demo]; Ted got a fucked-up copy, with lots of hissing in the background. We loved that."
It was a sound that hearkened back to the rudimentary recordings of '80s metal bands like Hellhammer and Venom, and the sparse production style would come to be known as necro. The necro sound has since become a defining quality of much black metal; even now, more than two decades later, it is prominent in the music of a growing wave of black metal artists who release music primarily (or exclusively) on cassette.
On the Unholy Trinity, Darkthrone abandoned the sounds of day and looked backward, finding new inspiration in bands like Mercyful Fate, Motörhead, and — most prominently and most importantly — Sweden's Bathory and Switzerland's Celtic Frost, the two first-wave [1] black metal bands whose blueprints Darkthrone would study like scripture, from which they would build a new church.
But the Unholy Trinity represents only three years of a career that now approaches the three-decade mark, and for two of those decades, Fenriz and Nocturno Culto have established a massive, weird discography, as well as a cult of personality. The two men are like two sides of a vinyl LP: inextricably connected yet utterly unique. Nocturno Culto is quiet, aloof, distant; he lives in Trysil, the forests of Norway, six hours from his bandmate. Fenriz is excitable, loud — an endlessly quotable music obsessive who lives in the city, Oslo. Fenriz has called his band "the Steely Dan of black metal," partly because both Darkthrone and Steely Dan share a reticence toward live performance (more on that later), and partly because both are duos whose core members play numerous essential roles, and the absence of either member would mean the immediate dissolution of the band. Fenriz plays the drums, writes the lyrics, does the interviews (hundreds of interviews per year, he claims); Culto plays the guitar, the bass, sings, writes the riffs, and handles all aspects of the band's business dealings (they've been on two labels over the course of their career: Peaceville, from 1990 to '94; Moonfog from '95 to 2004; and back to Peaceville from 2005 to present day). Occasionally, Culto will do an interview, or Fenriz will play guitar; recently, both men have split songwriting and singing duties straight down the middle. To separate their contributions at this point would be to destroy the songs entirely, much like the music of Becker and Fagen. It's kind of hilarious, too, to consider Steely Dan's legendary studio perfectionism as an analogue to Darkthrone's legendary commitment to lo-fidelity. As Fenriz said in one interview:
i don't know of any other drummer that deliberately decided to UN-LEARN drums. i am not very interested in drummers, i quit playing drums with ambition in 1993. i don't like playing drums and i ONLY play drums when we rehearse the song and after playing through the song once we start to record. so i play drums maybe 10 hours a year. and didn't play anymore than that the last ten years and that's a fact. i prefer bass and vocals, but i also do not rehearse those instruments, i get a hellova lot of NERVE out of not practicing, i'm walking on thin ice and i crave it!!
These days, the band rehearses a couple times a year, if that. They had almost completely stopped playing live by '92, and they played their last gig ever in 1996 (a one-off event). In '92, Fenriz was vocal about his distaste for live performance, saying: "We don't play live anymore because of sound problems, silly trend audience, stagedivers (shoot 'em) and other financial and equipmental problems." Since then, he has become a vehement, vocal opponent of live music (although he claims to still attend shows as an audience member on a fairly regular basis).
To be sure, the demand for Darkthrone live shows is there. In a 2011 interview, Fenriz told Metal Maniacs that the band had been offered $200,000 (plus expenses) to play the 2007 Wacken Open-Air Festival in Germany. In 2008, he says, they were offered $150,000 to play Hellfest in France. But the band members keep their day jobs — Culto is a schoolteacher; Fenriz works for the Norwegian postal service — so they won't have to make any artistic compromises, including playing live.
Fenriz is a genuine (and self-proclaimed) music nerd — along with Darkthrone, he's played in more than half a dozen other bands (most notably Isengard, Neptune Towers, and Fenriz' Red Planet); since 2009 he's run his Band Of The Week blog, which spotlights obscure metal bands that he's found via his extremely obsessive listening habits (As he notes, "Each year I go through 350 – 500 releases, whether it's a single, double album, demo, or DJ mix …. Every day I listen to at least 10 hours of music.") And Band Of The Week has been instrumental in launching the careers of some of the most talked-about metal bands of the last few years, including Ghost, Christian Mistress, and In Solitude, among many others. He closes nearly every interview with shouts out to the arcane bands he's listening to at the moment, the bands he wants you to hear, too.
That love of music is evident in every incarnation of Darkthrone. (The band's name is a combination of references: a Celtic Frost song called "Jewel Throne," with lyrics reading, "I am the king, sitting in the dark," along with a long-defunct Danish metal magazine called Blackthorn.) The band's work from 2007 to present day brings to life their oft-obscure, ancient heroes — Fenriz has loudly denied any influence dating later than the '80s. But their career has been magnificently strange and diverse. In compiling this ranking of Darkthrone's albums, I took into account only their studio LPs. I also largely ignored the band's lyrics, which are frequently incomprehensible, although it should be noted that Fenriz is truly one of black metal's greatest and most thoughtful lyricists, and he's only gotten better and more interesting with age. His general themes can be broken into three periods: early (occult, death); middle (depression, isolation); and late (a meta-discussion of metal scene politics). As Fenriz himself notes, "The lyrics have changed, of course, because I'm really scared of people who haven't changed their stance since they were 14. Perspective is everything, as Aimee Mann says."
With that, let's begin our descent into the amazing catalog of black metal's essential band. Start the Countdown here.
[1]That distinction — first-wave and second-wave black metal — is an important one. For our purposes, "black metal" will heretofore be defined as second wave and post-second wave: Darkthrone, Burzum, and Mayhem are the seminal bands of the second wave, and most of the black metal that is popular today — everything from Krallice to Agalloch to Deafheaven — is an extension or derivation of the second wave. The first wave is not so much a genre as an evolutionary link defined only in retrospect. But I'll let Fenriz tell you about that himself (from the great Until The Light Takes Us DVD bonus features):


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With years of experience coauthoring personal finance and legal books, Mary Reed knows the importance of maintaining good credit. She's careful to pay her bills on time and avoid unnecessary debt.
Recently, though, she mixed up the due date on one of her credit cards and ended up paying it one day late. No big deal, she thought.
But then she received a notice from the issuer informing her that her credit card APR was going up to 27.24%, calculated as "the prime rate plus 23.99%."
How could this happen? Didn't the Credit CARD Act do away with all that nonsense of steep rate increases for one minor infraction?
Not exactly.
Mary's rate increase was a penalty rate hike, which is still allowed by law.
While legal, there are some restrictions on penalty rate increases, however. Issuers can only raise the rate on an existing balance if a cardholder is at least 60 days late with a minimum payment. Otherwise, one of these increases only applies to future purchases. That's what happened in Mary's case. The letter she received said:
This notice will apply to your transactions as follows: Transactions made on or after 7/12/2013. The penalty rate will apply to these transactions as of 8/24/2013.
Transactions made before 7/12/2013. Current rates will continue to apply to these transactions.
Relax, This Will Only Hurt a Little While
Before the Credit CARD Act, consumers were stuck with higher credit card APRs forever. But thanks to that law, penalty rates may be temporary. Issuers are required to review accounts subject to these increases every six months to see if the customer is eligible for a decrease. As the issuer explained in Mary's letter:
We will review your account every 6 months after the penalty rate is applied…If you make timely payments during the entire review period, the Penalty APR will cease to apply on the first day of the billing period following that review.
A good, long-term customer, Mary wasn't willing to accept even a temporary rate increase. She called her card issuer to protest, and they agreed to reverse their decision and bring her rate down immediately.
The lesson in all of this? While the Credit CARD Act has provided consumers with significant protections, it's still possible to see your credit card rate skyrocket. So pay attention to due dates, and if you are hit by this, don't be afraid to speak up.
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow Teaching Notes by Alice C. Hill, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy
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Teaching Notes for Plagues and the Paradox of Progress, written by CFR Senior Fellow Thomas J. Bollyky, in which he traces the rise and fall of infectious disease and the challenges and opportunities that unprecedented health achievements pose for our future.
July 11, 2018U.S. Foreign Policy
Teaching Notes for The Road Not Taken, written by CFR Senior Fellow Max Boot, on the biography of Edward Lansdale that reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.
June 14, 2018Laos
Teaching Notes for A Great Place to Have a War, written by CFR Senior Fellow Joshua Kurlantzick, on the story of the CIA's covert war in Laos during the Vietnam War.
May 7, 2018Political History and Theory
Teaching Notes for The Marshall Plan, written by CFR Senior Fellow Benn Steil
April 1, 2016Global
Teaching Notes for War by Other Means by CFR Fellow Jennifer M. Harris and Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy Robert D. Blackwill.
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Teaching Notes for The Hacked World Order by Adam Segal.
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Teaching Notes for Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by CFR Senior Fellow Micah Zenko.
July 9, 2018Middle East and North Africa
Teaching Notes for Realism and Democracy, written by CFR Senior Fellow Elliott Abrams, on U.S. foreign policy that combines practical policies and idealism in supporting those struggling for democracy and human rights in the Arab world.
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Engagement Starts with Your Leaders
By Tom Roth, Chief Operating Officer, Wilson Learning Worldwide
Let's face it—it's still tough out there. Most organizations today have weathered the worst economy since World War II, with recovery and growth slower than we all would like it to be. But you made it, and now you are dealing with the massive changes that have taken place and are working hard to ensure your organization stays on course for continued success.
It's not all bad news. As a business survivor, you have set new, exciting strategies to propel your organization toward opportunity and inevitable future change. It's a long journey, and strong leaders understand that this is a critical time to galvanize their team and ensure their employees are active participants in creating and sustaining the momentum. To be successful, it's imperative that leaders create a culture of new energy and excitement—engagement—within the organization.
What Is the Leader's Role?
When focusing on engagement, it's important to understand who in the organization is really ready and who may need some help moving forward. During times like these, a certain pattern of behavior sets into many organizations. Generally, the leaders creating strategy are living in the future, concentrated on indicated trends six months out. They are looking at the next quarter's timeframe. Workers primarily function in the present, concentrated on accomplishing the key tactics of the day to day. Many workers find it difficult to shift into the mindset of future strategy and need time to process.
As a leader, it is your job to educate the entire organization, from top down, clearly identifying the path ahead. The challenge is to continue to move forward, with your employees feeling more than just clear and confident about the strategy and direction, but also excited and invigorated about the potential. As a leader in today's business environment, you are in the energy business—the human energy business. You are called to build a sense of engagement, helping employees realize the growth potential for the organization, the team, and themselves.
It's important to understand what we mean by engagement. Energy, not time, is the currency of engagement. Engagement is the combination of the perception of changes and events happening around you, and the level of energy experienced. So, highly engaged people have a positive perception of changes going on around them and they put a high level of energy into their work and everything else they do.
The Choice Model
The purpose of a leader is to engage others in committing their full energy to the creation of value and success. But no matter how strong a leader you are, you cannot change people; they have to make the choice to change. Wilson Learning has created the model available for download below to illustrate how choice works. When it comes to choice, there are three states of decision:
- Proactive
- Reactive
- Inactive
People go through a process to get to a decision, moving around the model for different reasons at different points in their lives and careers.
When people are fully committed, participating in activities, and willfully complying with organizational decisions set in motion, they are in the proactive state. They take ownership of what they do and how they do it. When people are resistant to change, grudgingly complying and perhaps motivated to "get even," they are in a reactive state. These people can act as deterrents to an organization's growth and progress. Those who step back to wait and see, pretend to comply, or disengage entirely, are in the inactive state. This also can have harmful effects on advancing your strategy.
As a leader, it is critical that you understand the concept of the Choice Model, and then you can assess where employees are and help move them to proactively committing their energy to the organization and themselves.
The Employee's Role
Remember, you cannot engage people. People choose to be engaged or not. Your role is to create the conditions in which they choose to be engaged. With a little bit of your help, it might not be so difficult for them. Before you can really help, it's important to understand your employees' perspective in a situation of great change. Many studies focus on why people leave; more important is why they choose to stay and engage. Here are some questions your employees may be asking themselves as they decide to engage:
- Why should I get excited about work?
- What do my leaders and mentors expect?
- Am I in a culture that cares about me?
- How will I know how I am doing?
- How do I work effectively with others?
- Is leadership providing a good role model and positive example?
By placing yourself in your employees' shoes, you are better prepared to help them move toward being committed and engaged. But beyond just empathizing with employees, there is some work for you to do on your own. Strong leaders experience their own individual effectiveness through the Four Levels of Leadership.
The Four Levels of Leadership
How can you be successful in leading an engaged organization? Leaders today, like employees, need to work through their own Choice Model and be proactive in not only deciding to engage, but also in deciding to lead the organization toward a culture of engagement. An organization's culture is created from a set of shared beliefs, practices, customs, and behaviors. By working through the Four Levels of Leadership, you can begin the process to increase your own leadership effectiveness and create a culture that works best for your organization.
- Leading Oneself. It all starts with you. You need to lead yourself before you can lead others. It's about being clear on your own sense of purpose and why you chose to be a leader. As with the old adage—"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything"—you also must have a clear sense of your values as a leader. These values guide you through decision-making and other actions you take. You also must know and understand your own leadership strengths.
- Leading Others: One to One. The skills you use to facilitate the individual growth of others often are regarded as foundational, such as communication skills, goal setting, and delegating. You need to have these basic critical skills to effectively lead individuals.
- Leading Teams: One to Group. In addition to one-to-one skills, leaders need to lead and inspire individuals to work effectively together and achieve results as a team. As organizations have flattened by removing the middle management layer and leaders' span of direct reports has increased, leading one to one is no longer efficient. Most leaders don't have the luxury of spending time on an individual basis and must move toward leading on a one-to-group level. With the increase in virtual teams that act on a global basis with multiple complex relationships, the skills of leading one to group are multifaceted and include problem solving, leading meetings, facilitating dialogue, and managing conflict.
- Leading a Work Culture. The act of leading a work culture is distinct from the other levels. Many leaders focus on improving their one-to-one and one-to-group skills. However, today's leader needs to understand what it takes to create a culture that enables the full engagement of all employees. Leading a work culture is about leaders understanding their responsibility to engage others to commit energy to the organization.
A real opportunity exists for organizations to increase employee engagement and build a culture of engagement when leaders build their strength through the Four Levels of Leadership.
To get started, here are three steps you can take today, right now, to become the leader you want to be:
- Demonstrate a clear commitmentto your own leadership purpose and values.
- Be a positive role modelfor the beliefs, practices, customs, and behaviors you want all employees to exhibit in their interactions with one another and in their day-to-day work.
- Encourage all employeesto understand and sharethose same beliefs and behaviors, and coach to them.
The culture of the organization will happen whether you influence it or not. And as you move your organization through these new, exciting times, are you willing to run the risk that your employees' behavior is less than or not what you need it to be? Are your leaders actively involved in establishing a culture of engagement? If not, they need to be, with you setting the example.
At Wilson Learning, we believe that you become a successful leader by taking these steps to proactively sustain the new strategies and direction of a stronger company with a culture of engagement.
Tom Roth is chief operating officer for Wilson Learning Worldwide. As such, he is responsible for the strategic direction and business performance of Wilson Learning Worldwide operations. In addition, he leads the Global Marketing Services and R&D Solutions Group. He also served as president of Wilson Learning Americas. He assists global executive leadership teams with issues related to employee engagement, leadership development, strategy alignment, and business transformation. Roth has spent more than 35 years developing and implementing human performance improvement solutions. He is the co-author of the book, "Creating the High-Performance Team." For more information, contact Wilson Learning at 800.328.7937 or visit www.wilsonlearning.com.


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When it comes to celebrity weddings, everybody always wants the details on the gown. Is it custom made? Who designed it? Is it lace? Mermaid? A ball gown?
Click through to see some of our absolute favorite Latina celebrity brides. Plus, check out their exquisite, designer gowns:
MORE: The best wedding dress for your body type!
1. Weddings: Naya Rivera
The Bride: Naya Rivera
The Groom: Ryan Dorsey
When and where: The couple married in a private (and secret!) Cabo San Lucas ceremony in July 2014.
Why We Loved The Dress: Rivera looked absolutely stunning in a lace Monique Lhuillier gown. The open back added a splash of sex appeal to the timeless, classy gown.
Where Are They Now: Still happily married!
2. Brides: Yvette Prieto
The Bride: Yvette Prieto
The Groom: Michael Jordan
When and Where: The couple met in a Miami club in 2008.
Why we loved the dress: Prieto's French silk voile corseted J'Aton Couture gown is absolutely elegant, with handmade silk lace and Swarovski crystals.
Where are they now: Only time will tell…. cheers to the happy couple!
3. Weddings: Bianca Jagger
The Bride: Bianca Jagger
The Groom: Mick Jagger
When and Where: May 12, 1971 in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France while she was 4 months pregnant with their daughter, Jade Jagger.
Why we loved the dress: She ditched the traditional wedding dress and decided to wear a super chic white YSL tuxedo jacket (wearing nothing under) with a long white narrow skirt, a large white floppy hat with a veil, and a floral corsage on her wrist showing her truly fashion-forward sense of style.
Where are they now: In May 1978 she filed for divorce on grounds of his adulterous behavior. Bianca kept her married name and has become a strong advocate for Human Rights and Environmental issues while Mick Jagger continues to be Mick Jagger.
4. Weddings: Salma Hayek
The Bride: Salma Hayek
The Groom: Francois-Henri Pinault
When and Where: After tying the knot on Valentine's day at City Hall in Paris in 2009, the couple went all out, hosting 150 of their closest friends and family for a weekend-long affair in Venice, Italy capped off with a ceremony held at the Teatro La Fenice opera house on April 25, 2009.
Why we loved the dress: Salma Hayek took advantage of her hubby's fashion empire, rocking a stunning Balenciaga wedding gown by Nicolas Ghesquiere. The off-white gown featured a fitted bodice embellished with beads and crystals and a full-length bubble skirt.
Where are they now: The couple announced their engagement and Salma's pregnancy in March 2007. After a brief split in 2008, they finally walked down the aisle and have been going strong ever since. They have a 3-year-old daughter, Valentina Paloma, who served as flower girl at the nuptials.
5. Weddings: Christina Aguilera
The Bride: Christina Aguilera
The Groom: Jordan Bratman
When and Where: at sunset on November 19, 2005 at the Staglin Vineyard in Napa Valley, California
Why We Loved the Dress: the pint-size crooner chose the Christian Lacroix gown during Paris Fashion Week the July before her November nuptials. Christina stayed true to her heritage with her flamenco-style dress and by carrying a diamond rosary in place of a floral bouquet. Her long ruffled train and dainty veil were the perfect details for a reformed dirty girl.
Where They Are Now: Christina Aguilera filed for divorce on October 14, 2010 citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have one son, Max, who was born on January 12, 2008. Christina is now engaged to Matthew Rutler, whom she met on the set of her movie Burlesque. They have one child together, Summer Rain.
6. Weddings: Fergie
The Bride: Fergie
The Groom: Josh Duhamel
When and Where: They tied the knot on January 10, 2009 at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu.
Why we loved the dress: The Black Eyed Peas singer wore a classy custom-made, form fitting white Dolce & Gabbana dress that showed off her hourglass figure in the front while flowers on the backside of her dress accentuated her "assets."
Where are they now: The happy couple survived rumors of Duhamel cheating and are both working on their careers. They have one child together, Axl Jack.
7. Weddings: Eva Longoria
The Bride: Eva Longoria
The Groom: Tony Parker
When and Where: Eva and her Parisian boyfriend got married on July 7, 2007 in the beautiful Chateau Vaux le Vicomte located on the outskirts of Paris.
Why we loved the dress: Eva wore an white Angel Sanchez wedding dress that came down to the middle of her back just enough to keep it classy and had a shimmery detailed hem on the bottom of the dress emphasizing the beautiful cascading train.
Where are they now: Longoria filed for divorce in Nov. 2010.
8. Weddings: La La Vazquez
The Bride: Alani "La La" Vazquez
The Groom: Carmelo Anthony
When and Where: Vazquez and Anthony's wedding was held at the classic NYC hot spot, Cipriani's on July 10, 2010. The venue was decorated in a rich red motif with flower chandeliers, luxurious textiles and a ton of red roses and candles.
Why we loved the dress: La La's beautiful custom-designed $8K Vera Wang gown was a frothy dream! The fitted bodice and sash tied at the waist flattered La La's curves perfectly and the layers of delicate fabric in the skirt were modern yet whimsical, just like the elegant affair at Cipriani's.
Where are they now: La La and NBA basketball superstar Carmelo have been going strong since Anthony proposed back in 2004. They have a 3-year-old son named Kiyan and their wedding this past Fall was a grand, star-studded affair. The wedding planning and big day were chronicled on the VH1 reality show La La's Full Court Wedding, which aired in September.
9. Weddings: Mariah Carey & Tommy Mottola
The Bride: Mariah Carey
The Groom: Tommy Mottola
When and Where: The pop diva and her then manager exchanged vows inside St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan in June 5, 1993.
Why we loved the dress: Mariah wore a white embellished larger-than-life off-the-shoulder Vera Wang wedding dress that had a 27-foot train, an embellished bodice and a poofy ball gown skirt that looked like something out of a princess fairytale.
Where are they now: Only 5 years into their marriage, Mariah and Tommy divorced and Mariah claimed herself emancipated. The both went on to marry other people.
10. Weddings: Odette Yustman
The Bride: Odette Yustman
The Groom: Dave Annable
When and Where: They got married at Twin Peaks Ranch at Ojai, Calif. on October 10, 2010.
Why we loved the dress: Odette looked stunning in a white Monique Lhuillier sweetheart dress that showed off her neckline beautifully and a tiered bottom that added some volume to her dress making her look timeless.
Where are they now: Dave and Odette recently worked together on Annable's hit show Brothers & Sisters.
11. Weddings: Thalia
The Bride: Thalía
The Groom: Tommy Mottola
When and Where: Thalía and the music executive were married at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on December 2nd, 2000.
Why we loved the dress: Thalía looked stunning in an elegant $350,000 off-the-shoulder gown made of silk, satin and tulle by Mitzy.
Where are they now: After 10 years together, Thalía and Tommy are still going strong and both are devoted to their daughter Sabrina Sakaë Mottola Sodi. Reportedly, Thalía is ready to have another baby in 2010.
12. Weddings: Gisele Bundchen
The Bride: Gisele Bundchen
The Groom: Tom Brady
When and Where: The supermodel and Super Bowl champ first tied the knot on February 26, 2009 in an intimate ceremony in Santa Monica, California, followed by a small gathering of family and friends held at their Brentwood Hills home. They followed the simple celebration with a larger party at Gisele's home in Malpais, Costa Rica on April 5 of that same year, where things got so out of hand paparazzi claimed that the couple's hired goons fired guns at them!
Why we loved the dress: Gisele's simply elegant dress was perfect for the location. She wore a white silk satin bias-cut long gown with spaghetti straps and train, designed by John Galiano's atelier in Paris and topped off the look with a six-foot-long white silk tulle veil.
Where are they now: The super couple is still doing super well! They had a baby named Benjamin on December 8, 2009 and both have been quite successful since tying the knot in both their personal and public endeavors. They even seem to have won over Brady's ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, who attended their second wedding in Costa Rica with Brady's first son, 3-year-old John Edward Thomas.
13. Weddings: Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon
The Bride: Mariah Carey
The Groom: Nick Cannon
When and Where: Even though the couple were dating for only 6 weeks, that didn't stop them from committing to each other forever on April 30, 2008 at the pop star's Bahamian Estate in Eleuthera.
Why we loved the dress: Mariah wore a very sleek and surprisingly simple form-fitting off-white Nile Cmylo dress that turned a pale pink color in water that was perfect for a wedding held on an island.
Where are they now: Mariah and Nick have twin children together, Moroccan and Monroe. They filed for divorce in January 2015 after six years of marriage.
14. Weddings: Alexa Vega
The Bride: Alexa Vega
The Groom: Sean Covel
When and where: The happy couple tied the knot in Covel's hometown of Lead, South Dakota on Oct. 10, 2010.
Why we loved the dress: Alexa looked radiant in an Ian Stewart dress which was snug on top, and poofy on the bottom—making her look like a true princess.
Where are they now: Alexa postponed her honeymoon because "Spy Kids called and they want me back to work ASAP," the actress said the day after her wedding. She is currently wrapping filming on the movie and lives in L.A. with her hubby.
15. Weddings: Paulina Rubio
The Bride: Paulina Rubio
The Groom: Nicolas Vallejo Nagera
When and Where: Pau and Nicolas had a religious ceremony at Asis Chapel Mexican Ecoturism Park on Mexico's Carribean Coast.
Why we loved the dress: Pau went for a simpler look on her wedding day, wearing a backless white wedding gown and letting her hair down for the big day. Pau looked comfortable yet sexy in this raw silk Rosa Clará gown.
Where are they now: In November, Pau and Nicolás welcomed a baby boy Andrea Nicolás (named after his father) into the world.
16. Weddings: Jenni Rivera
The Bride: Jenni Rivera
The Groom: Esteban Loaiza
When and Where: For her wedding to fourth husband, baseball player Esteban Loaiza, Jenni threw a lavish ceremony at a massive ranch in Simi Valley, California on September 8th, 2010.
Why we loved the dress: Jenni's simple, yet elegant gown was the perfect choice for her curvaceous figure. Despite how simple it looked, the dress reportedly cost $50,000 dollars because it was covered in Swarovski crystals.
Where are they now: The 4th marriage seems to have been the charm for Jenni. The newlyweds always look super happy when they're photographed by the paparazzi in L.A.
17. Weddings: Dayanara Torres
The Bride: Dayanara Torres
The Groom: Marc Anthony
When and Where: After marrying quickly in Las Vegas on May 9, 2000, the Puerto Rican pair renewed their vows in a formal ceremony on December 7, 2002 at San Juan's Cathedral in Puerto Rico.
Why We Loved the Dress: The former Miss Universe could have easily gone over the top on her big day, but instead she kept things classic with an off-the-shoulder Reem Acra gown embellished with pearls and Swarovski crystals.
Where They Are Now: The rocky marriage came to an end in October 2003 with Dayanara filing for divorce in January 2004. Less than a week after the divorce was finalized, Marc Anthony married Jennifer Lopez on June 5, 2004. To help in her recovery from the divorce, Dayanara traded her engagement ring for a diamond-encrusted Cartier watch and wrote the book Married to Me: How Committing to Myself Led to Triumph After Divorce.


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Good news for Linux advocates, FOSS in general ... and the taxpayer.
The US Navy now says it will acquire only systems based on open technologies and standards.
"The days of proprietary technology must come to an end," [Vice Adm. Mark Edwards] said. "We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data."
Good news for Linux advocates, FOSS in general ... and the taxpayer.
Open vs. closed, w.r.t to the government, doesn't mean what you think it does.
Hm. Can you expand on that, LH? Article certainly made it sound like they were talking about ditching Windows (which would sure as hell be nice, the idea of freaking WARSHIPS running on Windows has scared the hell out of me for some years now... when I was in, PCs were never used for any critical functions. Not so, any longer.)
Sounds like they want to get away from Mainframes, not Windows. Windows is not coupled to a particular piece of hardware...
Also they probably want to get away from all the custom-built computers for managing particular systems aboard ships. Like some sort of Mips-based device using assembly code written for managing ship-to-ship radar whose original makers went out of business 10 years ago and took all their code and documentation with them..
That's the trouble with the term 'Open' it has lots of different meanings that were used when talking about computers, most of which exist long before the term 'open source' was created.
Think in terms of things like 'The Open Group' and their control over the Unix licensing.
It sounds like a bit of COTS. Basically, no purpose-built systems that come all in one package, sounds like. No more making a purpose-only card with purpose-only chips and such on it... use commodity parts and use software solutions that support standard interchange formats.
It's exactly as I've said. The Navy doesn't want to be a situation where they're stuck with some solution they can't change because they don't have control over it.
Think more "open standards" than OSS. But even that's not true: you can still develop your own standard (especially if a standard doesn't exist), just don't expect to get away with keeping it private.
I've met the guy at MS who leads the SQL support on these types on applications. He was BY FAR the most impressive person I've ever met in an technology role (I've worked closely with/known personally a former CTO at PARC and the inventor of major chunks of Cisco's CRS-1 for whatever that's worth). He was incredibly passionate about his work and showed an unbelievable amount of knowledge on a huge array of topics, usually people are either a mile wide and an inch deep or the other way around. Talking to him was oddly intimidating.
Anyway MS offers a ton of hand holding and special code/fixes to groups in those situations. It isn't just off the shelf applications and dial the 1-800 number support.
The ingredients are there. TCP/IP, SQL, Linux, C++, and Java, and then you have hard drives, multicore CPUs, newer motherboards, SDRAM, USB Flash. All freely available and very powerful.
I don't see ADA on your list. Is the military still using that a lot?
For projects like embedded RADAR systems and warplane avionics, I (ass)umed that the source code would have been one of the deliverables. Is that not the case?
I'd imagine it'd always be the case.
This is revolutionary: telling the government contractors to stop tying them down to technology and software that can't ever be replaced is a very good thing.
Well, better Windows than on Linux in an outdated version of Wine. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --
sorry, dude.
nowhere in the article did it specify nor even really suggest any thing regarding linux, foss, gnu, open-source, etc, etc.
you might want to repost this in the Battlefront if you want further discussions.


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Today is Thursday, Jan. 24
Today is Thursday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2013. There are 341 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 24, 2003, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially opened as its head, Tom Ridge, was sworn in. (Creation of the new Cabinet agency was the largest government reorganization in more than 50 years, a response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the threat of further terror.)
On this date:
In 1813, the Royal Philharmonic Society was formed in London.
In 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49.
In 1908, the Boy Scouts movement began in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.
In 1942, the Roberts Commission placed much of the blame for America's lack of preparedness for Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
In 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52 crashed near Goldsboro, N.C., dropping its payload of two nuclear bombs, neither of which went off; three crew members were killed.
In 1963, a U.S. Air Force B-52 on a training mission crashed into Elephant Mountain in Maine after encountering turbulence and losing its vertical stabilizer; seven of the nine crew members were killed.
In 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.
In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
In 1987, gunmen in Lebanon kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh. (All were eventually released.)
In 1989, confessed serial killer Theodore Bundy was executed in Florida's electric chair.
In 1993, retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died in Bethesda, Md., at age 84.
Ten years ago: Connecticut became the first state to take part in the U.S. government's plan to inoculate a half million health care workers against smallpox. (Only four doctors agreed to be vaccinated the first day.)
Five years ago: Congressional leaders announced a deal with the White House on an economic stimulus package that would give most tax filers refunds of $600 to $1,200. French bank Societe Generale announced it had uncovered a 4.9 billion euro ($7.14 billion) fraud by a single futures trader. Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned after losing a Senate confidence motion.
One year ago: Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to deliver a populist challenge to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy more and help jobless Americans get work and hang onto their homes. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his 2010 tax returns, showing that his annual income topped $20 million and that he paid about $3 million in federal income taxes.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Jerry Maren ("The Wizard of Oz") is 94. Actor Marvin Kaplan ("Top Cat") is 86. Cajun musician Doug Kershaw is 77. Singer-songwriter Ray Stevens is 74. Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond is 72. Singer Aaron Neville is 72. Actor Michael Ontkean is 67. Actor Daniel Auteuil is 63. Country singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs is 63. Comedian Yakov Smirnoff is 62. Bandleader-musician Jools Holland is 55. Actress Nastassja Kinski is 54.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Theo Peoples is 52. Country musician Keech Rainwater (Lonestar) is 50. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is 47. Comedian Phil LaMarr is 46. Olympic gold medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sleepy Brown (Society of Soul) is 43. Actor Matthew Lillard is 43. Actress Merrilee McCommas is 42. Actor Ed Helms is 39. Actress Tatyana Ali is 34. Rock musician Mitchell Marlow (Filter) is 34. Actress Mischa Barton is 27.
Thought for Today: "All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth." -- Richard Whately, British theologian (1787-1863).


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Rayman Origins' UbiArt tech to be free
Rayman creator Michel Ancel talks about his motivations behind making UbiArt (the engine behind Rayman Origins) free to use for developers.
Series creator Michel Ancel wants UbiArt, the tech behind the impressive-looking 2D game Rayman Origins, to be free for anyone who wants to use it. Develop reports that Ancel is aiming to make the UbiArt Framework open-source in the near future. "UbiArt has been built to be shared," he said.
"It won't be like the other game technologies, which are often just locked away," said Ancel. "If the guys who invented the paintbrush only kept it for themselves then fine art [would be in a sorry state], it would be ephemeral. So yes, I want [UbiArt] to be open source, I want it to go out and be shared and evolved."
Ancel compares it to artists at Disney, who are "happy to look at how other artists are developing their style. That whole medium has evolved on the basis of sharing ideas. But in games we lock it all in a black box and keep it to ourselves." He also suggests that sharing might help bolster independent developers, who are largely on their own.
UbiArt's licensing terms haven't been set yet, and Ancel says the Ubisoft executive team will be setting that policy. But, he believes that the tech will be free to use once it rolls out to a wider audience.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Rayman Origins' UbiArt tech to be free.
Rayman creator Michel Ancel talks about his motivations behind making UbiArt (the engine behind Rayman Origins) free to use for developers.
That's two stories in two days about ubisoft and their connection with FOSS